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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: "DR.LIVIi A" <drlivi3006@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:33:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME.
Dear Friend,
This Email is indeed a suprise and embarrassing one to you for the simple fact that we have not met or known each other before. I have decided to write you based on time constraints and the need to actualize my basic objective of going into this proceedings despite the fact that we do not know ourselves prior to this letter. I plead for your understanding for any embarrassement we have caused to you by this emergency email.
I am Dr Livi Ajuonuma, I am the General Manager Group Public affairs department of the Nigeria National Petroleum corporation [N.N.P.C] and I am contacting you to seek your interest of standing as a beneficiary in this transaction to claim the total sum of eighteen million US dollars [US$18000,000.00]. This money arose as a result of delibrate inflation of the original contract amount to a foreign company which executed a supply and technical support project for the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation [N.N.P.C] a few years ago, the company which executed the project has been fully settled of its entilements for the project which it executed leaving behind this excess inflated amount which I have been authorised by my two other colleagues to locate a suitable foreign national who would compliment our efforts by claiming the funds so that we shall disburse the proceeds in a very unbiased, fair and agreeable sequence.
All the information and data required to make the claim are in our custody and we have our contacts in the offices which are relevant to the release of the money to you. We have already proposed that you will be compensated handsomely therefore you will have to suggest to us in your revert mail what you will like to take as your share after the release of the
funds to you. We shall map out some little percentage of the funds to reimburse any expenses borne by any body during the process of the release of the funds to you. There are no risks involved in this transaction therefore read this email and make up your mind to particiapte as the beneficiary to this funds, I will not hesitate to furnish you with more detailed
information at your request where you are not cleared. I need your telephone, sex, age and occupation in your reply so that we can proceed because the money has been approved for paynment and released into our suspense account for foreign transmission to the beneficiary.
This message is a confidential issue therefore it has to be protected from going public.
Regards,
Dr. Livi Ajuonuma
[General Manager, Group Public Affair
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